Hirschfeld v. Teller

*347OPINION OF THE COURT

Pigott, J.

Beginning as early as 1996, defendants, certain nursing homes in New York State, began accepting as residents patients discharged from facilities licensed by the Office of Mental Health (OMH). The patients were primarily from New York State psychiatric hospitals with diagnoses of mental illness. All but one of defendant nursing homes placed the patients in discrete units of the residence, referred to as “neurobiological units” (NBUs), where the residents received psychiatric and psychosocial rehabilitative services. Defendant nursing homes operate under licensing…